They gotta lose that “prayer” shit. But in my circles at least, this is very real, completely independent of these guys. I know a lot of people insisting they’re not watching.

I almost feel like this will be diminished because of pops... “well of COURSE it was Howie’s kid- wake me up when it’s not the son of somebody who played for Al Davis taking a stand!”

Cal football is quite possibly the most underachieving sports team/program of my lifetime, and I am not young. Destroy and rebuild in a few generations may seriously be the ideal plan of action.

Lynch may as well be the face of the Kaepernick blackball. First he comes out the box saying that Kaep had a huge deal that fell through at the start of free agency, long before Kaep said any teams even reached out to him. That appears to be a blatant lie. Then there were the “anonymous sources” telling Peter King the…

That actually sounded pretty good, until he got to the point about bringing in competition immediately, simultaneously suggesting they put too much and too little pressure on him. You draft a kicker second round, damn right you just anointed him. Now it’s sink or swim.

It’s probably the ultimate “you can lead a horse to water...” situation- drop all the knowledge in the world as politely as possible, nobody is going to concede that you just destroyed their world view. The only way to “win” is to shoot your shot diplomatically and hope it sinks in.

Trump made all this very difficult. I talked to a couple of my bosses, who by virtue of things they’ve said over the past decade, I consider somewhat racist, who would not vote for Trump “because he’s racist.” That’s good! But it didn’t erase from my memory the racist talking points I’ve heard come out of their…

I hope when they get to hell, Bob Probert just happens to be down there visiting Tie Domi...

What’s the deal with Khalil McKenzie, is he healthy? I assume his dad kicks him in the knee every time they get together, keeping him off the field so he can eventually acquire him as an undrafted free agent.

Last year we had a troll in one of my drafts/leagues. Started with some lovely racist crap in the chat, proceeded to make joke picks... and everybody ignored him, nary a word was spoken, and the rest of us just carried on and had a guaranteed W on our schedule.

Yes, everybody lives your life and you’re the only sane one.

That Despacito song has become a running joke in the DJ community. Having never heard it myself the only humor I get is laughing at a bunch of whores who laugh at people for requesting a song they think is terrible, which they then play.

Yes. There is still a huge market on the street. Some people don’t want to deal with the bullshit, some people don’t want to pay for a card, for some people it is more convenient to just buy from “their guy.”

I take it you’re a... “fan.” What was the deal with him? Even as a football junkie there are no Bills games on out here ever, I think I casually watched him once and wasn’t immediately horrified or anything. How did he suck?

That’s hilarious to hear, because refs have been really picky about all that with Carr and have thrown a couple flags when he’s done it...

They’ve been gushing about EJ Manuel in Raiders camp this summer. We all should have assumed that him becoming a legit QB somewhere else would be how that would work out.

The injuries are why the idea of an NFL feeder league is dead in the water right now. You don’t want guys already under contract playing real football that doesn’t matter, so the league would basically be one big meat grinder to churn out a couple special teams gunners every year. It’s all the bad PR the league…

Donovan McNabb is a great example. I’m sure he caught a lot of racist abuse. There are also valid criticisms of him that have nothing to do with race that are generally accepted.

The guy was one of the most controversial college players in recent memory. Were you aware of that at the time?

Pffft, that was a huge thing that whole season, and then was everywhere in the lead up to the Super Bowl. Let’s not backtrack and pretend there wasn’t a whole different conversation surrounding him than other pro athletes who catch a fair amount of racist abuse, which don’t inspire the same deluge of dumbass misguided…